Page History

April 2016

On the TTF call on At-Large Technology Taskforce 2016-04-18, discussed with ICANN Staff several of the issued noted on the At-Large Technology Issues page. This call was captioned as part of the At-Large Captioning project.

On this call, feedback was given to ICANN staff regarding the issue of "the ability to export Adobe Connect recordings from Flash only recordings to formats like MP4 which can be edited and put on video sharing websites for easier resharing and more accessible
for the At-Large community"

This issue is important because Adobe Connect recordings in Flash are unplayable on mobile and tablet devices whereas MP4 files can be playable on mobile, tablet and PCs. Also, playing an Adobe Connect recording on a PC with Flash installed is cumbersome compared with
experiences on video sharing websites like YouTube.

Based on the suggestions given by the TTF on the April 18 2016 call (https://community.icann.org/x/UTmAAw), ICANN has configured their Adobe Connect account to allow for ICANN staff (at no additional cost) to export Adobe Connect recordings to MP4 format.

At-Large Staff are currently testing the process to convert Adobe Connect recordings to MP4 and to upload to Youtube. Here's the recording of the At-Large Technology Taskforce conference call on April 18 2016 on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3rstINbZJo

Also, Since the call for TTF volunteers to test the new translation tool for At-Large mailing lists was posted in late Feburary 2016, several persons responded and were added to the new transbot mailing lists to
do testing. These persons are listed on the https://community.icann.org/display/LACRALO/discussion-of-LACRALO-mailing-list-issues page.

Since then, several bugs have been identified. These bugs are also documented at https://community.icann.org/display/LACRALO/discussion-of-LACRALO-mailing-list-issues

At the TTF meeting at the ICANN55 meeting in Marrakech (https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/mon-ttf), Chris Gift from ICANN introduced Mark Segall (who was attending remotely at the time), a new person at ICANN as a
Delivery Manager, Community Services and thus would be the point person to direct enquiries regarding the issues of the LACRALO mailing list translation.

Mark Segall has been made aware of the bug reports on https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/At-Large+FY17+Budget+Development+Workspace
and has noted that this item needs to be formally classed as a services that ICANN IT supports. So ICANN is currently putting the team needed to support, including seeking an outside developer to help with fixing outstanding bugs.

This is pretty much what the TTF budget request for ICANN's FY17 was asking for, and which was approved by the FBSC and submitted to ICANN Finance. See the approved budget proposal at
https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/54696459/Fixing-LACRALO-Mailing-List-FY17-Community-Request%20Rev2.docx

March 2016

The TTF met at ICANN55 Marrakech, transcripts and recordings can be found at https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/mon-ttf and you can view the TTF presentation  At-Large Technology Taskforce presentation for ICANN 55 Marrakech March 2016.pdf

February 2016

No call this month given the proximity of the Marrakech meeting. Re:  LACRALO mailing list issues, the volunteer staff person at ICANN has submitted some patches to the code for the new translation mailing lists, a call for LACRALO members to help test this code will be was done.

January 2016

Had a conference call on At-Large Technology Taskforce 2016-01-18 where we continued to review At-Large Technology Issues with ICANN Staff who have been made aware of several issues facing the ICANN At-Large Community.

...

The Translation Tools wiki was updated to note the Skype Translator features now builtin to the latest version of Skype for Windows. 

A number of  reports from participants

...